September 28, 2005—As part of ongoing efforts to increase use of its standards, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has announced a major change to availability of addenda to code-intended standards.
The move puts ASHRAE in line with issuance of model building codes, ASHRAE says.
In the past, addenda for code-intended standards on continuous maintenance were posted individually on ASHRAE.org after being approved by the Board of Directors for publication. Now, Board-approved addenda to code-intended standards will be published in a supplement. The supplements for each standard will be published on a regular schedule halfway between the three-year publication of each standard. The addenda also will be incorporated into each standard when it is reissued after its last publication.
The change applies only to code-intended standards that are on continuous maintenance. These are:
Standard 15, Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems;
Standard 34, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants;
Standard 52.2, Method of Testing General Ventilation Air Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size;
Standard 62.1, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Commercial, Institutional, Industrial and High-Rise Residential Buildings;
Standard 62.2, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings;
Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings;
Standard 90.2, Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings;
Standard 140, Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs.
The first supplements for standards published will be available in March 2006.
For more information, visit the ASHRAE web site.
